exec itself?
whoa... did not think that was possible.. yeah yeah yeah newbie colors
through and through
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 15:16
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: clearing memory
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yacketta, Ronald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:07 PM
> > To: Beginners (E-mail)
> > Subject: clearing memory
> >
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > I am drawing a blank here.. I am onsite at a customers
> > location with not perl books and perldoc is not installed :(
> >
> > what is the quickest, cleanest , efficient way to clear out
> > memory used by an array and other variables in a script?
> >
> > We have a script that is continuously run and sleeps every 30
> > seconds b4 grabbing data and populating arrays. Is it
> > possible to make a clean() that will wipe the slate clean at
> > the end or beginning of the next run?
>
> Well, you can just clear out variables individually with
> undef and let perl
> do its garbage collection:
>
> undef @myarray;
> undef %myhasn;
> undef $myscalar;
>
> For a truly fresh start, maybe have the script exec() itself?
>
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